slamdunkcentral.com - 4/6/2008
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It is highly unlikely that the New Jersey Nets will make the NBA Eastern Conference Playoffs this season. They currently trail the Atlanta Hawks by four games with each team having five remaining game. To complicate matters more, the Indiana Pacers are between the two teams a half game ahead of New Jersey. So the Nets would realistically win all five, have the Hawks lose all five, and ...
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The AltRaps Blog —
... time you have seen teams that end the regular season looking dazed and confused but turn it around in the playoffs. But those teams are the exceptions to the rule. The Toronto Raptors a couple of weeks ago were comfortably perched in the number five seed destined to play the Cleveland Cavaliers. They are now below .500, in seventh place, and although they have a spot locked up, and are assured of being in the post season they are as close to the eighth seed as they are to the fifth. - Slam Dunk Central This year, Forbes magazine ranked the Leafs (again) as the most valuable ...
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